Universal #158

Legacy number: 158

 Number  158
 Original  If an adposition occurs as both dative marker and locative marker, it also occurs as allative marker.
 Standardized  IF an adposition occurs as both a dative marker and a locative marker, THEN it also occurs as an allative marker.
 Keywords  adposition, dative, locative, allative
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
 Source  Blansitt 1988 186 (v)

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Discussion
Notes
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: A locative is first grammaticalized as allative, then as dative.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: A locative is first grammaticalized as allative, then as dative.